Mixing colours is enjoyable, meditative, and it may be very satisfying. Many shade mixing directions have you ever making systematic shade charts, with small swatches of every shade. They appear nice, they make you’re feeling such as you’ve completed one thing, and they’re helpful for reference.
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| Shades (darkish) and tints (gentle) of Everlasting Inexperienced Gentle |
One other technique to get to know your colours is to decide on one shade, and blend it with white and colours which might be adjoining to it on the colour wheel, or “analogous colours”. Additionally combine it with totally different variations of the identical shade. Within the following video I begin with turquoise out of the tube. I combine it with one other turquoise (deeper, darker Pthalo Turquoise), in addition to white, inexperienced, and a few yellows. Do that with any shade.
You’ll be able to check out shade combos in your sketchbook in a non-systematic manner. Here’s a video by which I put collectively colours in a sort of ‘temper board’.
In case you are simply starting a portray observe, I like to recommend getting as
many paints as you’ll be able to afford. Begin with a minimum of a couple of top quality paints, equivalent to Golden, and complement with extra budget-friendly paints. Embrace, if attainable, two totally different
variations of every major shade: pink, blue, yellow. Here’s a little
article on Colour and Paint, which you’ll obtain for reference. It
consists of shade suggestions.